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Aboriginals Smuggled to Vanuatu

Indigenous descendants from Vanuatu begin family search

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By SBS – May 11, 2018, VanuatuIndependent.com IT’S a little known detail of the so-called ‘blackbirding’ trade: how a group of Aboriginal Australians ended up in Vanuatu, never to return home. Chief Richard David Fandanumata has travelled to Australia from Vanuatu to see the land his great-grandfather came from. He hopes to find his lost relatives with just […]

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Pacific Islander labourers were forced to return to their home islands starting in 1906. (Picture: State Library of Queensland)

Vanuatu descendants of Indigenous Australians search for long lost family

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By ABC – May 5, 2018, VanuatuIndependent A SMALL group of men from Vanuatu with Aboriginal ancestry have travelled to Australia on a mission to reconnect with their long lost family, and to push for better recognition of their Australian ties. Thousands of people with Indigenous Australian ancestry are believed to be living in Vanuatu. Many are the […]

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